Our Commitment to Your Security

 

Protection for MetLife Home Loans online customers is provided by several security measures creating a safe and reliable experience on the Internet. First, to gain access to MetLife Home Loans customer information, users must verify their identity with their unique log in credentials. Second, the entire MetLife Home Loans computer system is protected with firewalls, limiting access to MetLife Home Loans services to only those customers providing the proper identification. Third, before data is exchanged between the customer and MetLife Home Loans, it is encoded or scrambled with key Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption.

The federal government also provides significant protection. The same laws protecting consumers in the case of fraudulent credit card usage also protects them in the case of unauthorized online mortgage loan activity.

 

Firewalls

 

The popularity and acceptance of the Internet has created the need for companies to make information available from internal computer systems. One way to meet this need is for companies to install and maintain a security firewall on their computer networks.

Today's firewalls, which authenticate every request for information, provide only the information that a person is authorized to have. Firewalls also document every event.

 

Secure Socket Layer (SSL)

All data exchanged over the Internet is divided into small units and sent in envelope type packets. Upon arriving at the computer that requested the information, the packets are reassembled into the original message.

For Internet transactions and communications, a method must be employed to secure these packets as they travel across the Internet. Secure Socket Layer, or SSL, is a leading method for encrypting and decrypting packets of data as they are exchanged using a code known only to the data's sender and recipient. SSL locks the data so that, regardless of the path the data takes as it passes across the Internet, it only can be opened by the end user with the proper key or combination to the lock on the data.

SSL technology is widely accepted today because of the complex combination needed to unlock SSL encrypted data. The bottom line is that even if someone could sift your packets of data out of the trillions passing through the Internet every minute, it would take so long to unlock each of the SSL-protected packets that the data would be out of date and useless by the time it was reassembled.

 

About Our Web Linking Policy

 

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